{"id":2070,"date":"2011-03-15T14:51:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:14","slug":"my-campaign-to-get-thunderbird-integrated-into-ubuntu-natty-narwhal-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/my-campaign-to-get-thunderbird-integrated-into-ubuntu-natty-narwhal-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"My Campaign to get Thunderbird Integrated into Ubuntu Natty Narwhal Continues…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been silent about my work for a few weeks, which is a shame, because one of the top reasons why I accepted a job with Mozilla Messaging<\/a> was because I was free to talk about what I was doing.<\/p>\n

I’ve been neglecting that right, but only because I’ve been holy shit busy<\/em>.\u00a0 I’ve been blitzing my Ubuntu Unity integration work<\/a> like a MoFo, and have gotten two Thunderbird extensions up on Mozilla Labs:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Messaging Menu integration<\/a>
    \n<\/object><\/li>\n
  2. Unity Launcher integration<\/a>
    \n<\/object><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So what’s next?<\/p>\n

    Ubuntu One<\/h3>\n

    Ubuntu One<\/a> is a service that allows you to sync things like files, bookmarks and contacts between different computers.\u00a0 (Incidentally, Mozilla has their own service called Sync<\/a> to do something similar with bookmarks and passwords.)<\/p>\n

    That’s a pretty cool idea.\u00a0 Imagine it – you get a brand new computer, hook it up to Ubuntu One, and blam:\u00a0 all of your bookmarks and contacts are already there waiting for you.<\/p>\n

    Currently, however, Thunderbird does not support sharing contacts via Ubuntu One.<\/p>\n

    And that’s what I’m tackling next.<\/p>\n

    Ubuntu One Contacts Integration<\/h3>\n

    At this point, my goal is to write an extension that will add a new address book to Thunderbird.\u00a0 Any contacts that are currently stored and shared via Ubuntu One will appear in that address book.<\/p>\n

    I’ll deal with adding new contacts later – for now, I’ll just do read-only, to keep the complexity down.<\/p>\n

    So stay tuned.\u00a0 Ubuntu One Contacts integration is coming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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